Re: ANN: Retiring from A2 world - Good Bye All!

[Greg Buchner <null@invalid.com>]

In article <aerak3$hsn$1@venus.itns.co.za>,
 Stephen Shaw <stephen@apple2.org.invalid.za> wrote:

> As for Jobs now - the Mac is still a niche product and is likely to
> fade in the next 5 years due to Linux, Windows, BeOS, FreeBSD and others. Face
> it the Mac is to locked into its own world to survive outside it.

I was told basically the exact same thing in 1984 when I bought my Apple 
II.  Apple's still around.

And, OS X is BSD.  And it's getting to be quite popular amongst some 
Unix users.  At a Programmers SIG today with the local Users Group I'm 
in here in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN area we had a guy from Cisco 
talking.  Almost the entire group he's in (12 people, one holdout) went 
and got rid of their Toshiba laptops running Linux and went to Titanium 
G4's running OS X.  They were all attracted to a decent GUI running on 
top of a Unix.  There's lots of people attracted to the Mac because of 
that these days.

Every year, someone predicts the eventual demise of Apple.  And Apple 
keeps on outliving the predictions.

Greg B.
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